Grandmother, 94, beaten by live-in granddaughter: cops

BRICK – A township woman has been charged with severely beating her 94-year-old grandmother in the Lions Head North senior community.

Catherine Schubert, 37, has been arrested and charged with the aggravated assault on her grandmother at 93 Courtshire Drive, police said. The assault was reported shortly before noon after a friend of Schubert's called 911, authorities said.

Schubert was in the Brick Police Station as of 10 a.m. Monday, Brick Police Capt. Ronald Dougard said.

Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, which is assisting Brick in the investigation, said that Schubert was initially taken to Ocean Medical Center in Brick because she was under the influence of alcohol. Her grandmother was take to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, a trauma center in Neptune.

Police did not identify the grandmother by name because she is a victim of domestic violence. Property and voting records indicate that the home is owned and occupied by Mary Driscoll, 94.

Schubert is being held in lieu of $150,000 cash only bail.

The grandmother suffered contusions and lacerations on her body, Della Fave said. She also is reported to have bleeding on her brain, he said.

Driscoll's daughter, Michelle Schubert, tried calling several times Friday and Saturday before arriving at the home on Sunday. Driscoll's daughter lives in New York, Della Fave said.

Neighbors at the scene expressed concerned about the woman.

It is unusual to see a large police presence at a home in the Lion's Head North, said Frank Hinchcliffe, who lives around the corner from the house.

The neighborhood has its occasional first aid call but "police have been here since about noon Sunday," Hinchcliffe said Monday. "Police were questioning two ladies outside and put one person in an ambulance about 12:30 (p.m.). There was a police car parked overnight in the driveway."